Sam Hecht
Founding Software Engineer at Tako
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Hecht is a founding software engineer and seasoned technology leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling data-driven platforms from early startup stages to global operations. Based in San Francisco, he spent a decade at Confluent rising from manager to VP, where he built global support, customer success engineering teams, and even led Professional Services during a critical growth phase. Earlier roles at Metamarkets gave him deep hands-on experience in data engineering and product management for analytics infrastructure (the team behind Apache Druid). He also contributes to open-source and DevOps work—helping validate and harden Confluent Docker images and testing infrastructure for Kafka-related components. Comfortable switching between strategy and implementation, he blends operational rigor with product sensibility and a surprising creative streak hinted at by a longstanding appreciation for rock and roll.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Spanish Literature Economics, B.A. Spanish Literature Economics at University of Virginia
Spanish
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Github Skills (8)
confluent-platform10
bash10
docker10
dockers10
testing10
kafka9
schema8
cicd7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
confluentinc/cp-docker-images
Jun 2016 - Jun 2017
[DEPRECATED] Docker images for Confluent Platform.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:58 commits, 39 PRs, 26 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the testing and configuration of Docker images for the Confluent Platform, focusing on ensuring their functionality and proper configuration. They made changes to test scripts across different components, like Kafka, Schema Registry, and Kafka REST, to validate environment variables, configuration settings, and overall cluster health. Their work included implementing and maintaining the testing infrastructure, as evidenced by the addition of health checks and validation of the application’s setup.
kafka-streamsconfluent-clouddockerconfluent-platformdocker-images
metamx/rad-tech-datatypes
Jul 2014 - May 2015
They only live to get radical.
Contributions:37 commits, 7 PRs, 11 pushes in 10 months
radical
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